Adrenaline adventure outing

With the girls at school and Ben off rock climbing with a new Canadian friend for the day with the car, rather than being house bound I thought I’d head off on my own adrenaline adventure on such a glorious day!

I have decided to walk to the hairdresser which from our house is 2.5km and along the freeway with no footpath. I have documented the journey, partly to remember how bloody scary the walk has been and also incase I DIE, Ben can worked out how I got here and where they found my body…

I have always been too scared to walk the area around our house, or really anywhere in Siena as there appear to be no footpaths, cars go 110km/hr, pedestrian crossings exist but cars get right of way so you just need to wait for a gap and run, cars tend to drive on pedestrian only streets as well. 

Heading off to the hairdresser, still feeling quite optimist about the walk!

Oh good, they just re-painted the pedestrian crossing so its fresh, even through it crosses to NO WHERE!

Almost run over on the edge of the road while taking pretty photo of our house, its the one with the green bell tower in the distance!

This footpath (ie road) is not too bad if I walk fast and keep my handbag across my chest and not swinging over my arm as it just got hit by a car!

And this is where the footpath becomes non-existent so I crossed to walk into oncoming traffic and not have the cars come from behind, somehow I thought this would be safer.

I walked sidestep for this part as the cars were going 90/km per hour past me.

Almost there, 500 meters to go, just need to cross the freeway bridge…by foot.

Almost over the bridge!

And arrived at the hairdresser (parrucchiere) and will you look at that, its next door to the cannoleria! What a coincidence :-)

And back home, safe and sound with Friday hair! Happy weekend everyone xo

Just finished at the hairdresser where I had my hair dyed, cut and straightened (for 60 euros - bargain), AND had 2 (or maybe3) glasses of chianti wine and some pannaforte. The walk home should be a lot more bearable!